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Designed by Rios Clementi Hale Studios, the park is scheduled to open in 2020 The long journey to find a permanent home is almost over for the Aluminaire House, considered to be the seminal modernist prefab home.
The house, designed by Albert Frey and A. Lawrence Kocher in 1931, is set to be permanently installed in a new Palm Springs park that will built across from the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Aluminaire Foundation reports.read more

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